Night Shift

Good morning All 🌺

Thanks @Mazarita.

I know the Sleep Police include medically trained people, and there is a lot of research data to support certain ways of living, but here is something I know ........ as ancient as Austalia is, and we have our First People here (some of you may be able to tell us what the traditional sleeping patterns are for Aust. Aboriginal people) having spent time in Europe, there are patterns of waking and sleeping that are very different from what I knew and understood growing up here amongst people from European ancestry.

In Mediterranean cultures, for instance, if you are part of a village community, you may eat earlier, and go to bed earlier, and be up again from four or five in the morning. In the larger towns and cities though, dinner time is not usually until around 10:00pm. Most people won't go straight to sleep after a meal, so a bedtime of midnight or beyond is entirely common. Then most people are up again from around 7:00am, meaning they have had somewhere between 5 and 7 hours sleep. So, after lunch, and school classes finish at 1:00pm as a rule, everybody has a siesta time. There is a general social rule that you don't disturb other households between 2:00pm and 4 a 5:00pm for this reason .......

Then "night school" starts for the kids. They go to all sorts of extra-curricular classes - and it's not just the kids by the way. Extending your personal development (like cooking classes 😊) is considered so normal !! There are swimming lessons, martial arts, dance class, language classes (most kids in Greece are learning 4 to 5 languages at once in this current generation, and nobody is concerned that it is causing "dysfunctional language development - dialects are transitional in all their forms). Evening time is a "high-traffic" period in the day, mostly on foot, because even in the cities, most suburbs operate with something of a village structure and social mentality.

That has been my experience anyway. Sometimes I think we build up a lot of guilt over things we just don't need to ..... without meaning to oppose any sound medical advice. It's just that if "the best way" isn't working at the moment, maybe consider that other ways are okay too .....

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Thanks @Former-Member.

Great reading what you have to say about sleep cycles, @Faith-and-Hope.

I'm off now. Catch you later.

Hope today treats everyone well.

Hi @Former-Member

That has been one of the magical aspects of marrying into another culure ...... that, and travelling to other countries really moves your horizons back on what they were ......

I would dearly love to see local Aboriginal languages taught in Australian schools as second languages here for our non-indigenous population, and of course, it then supports those languages as first-languages for the First People tribes, promoting awareness that Australian English is their second-language, and needs to be respected as that.

We still have such a way to go ........ I dream that there will eventually be local community classes for Aboriginal cultural teaching. There ought to be a much higher profile on this by now. So good to see the festivals and art shows extending their influence. Music and art are part of every language, and often speak much louder than words.

Sounds like you've had some fantastic experiences @Faith-and-Hope and have a wonderful perspective on our indigenous culture as well.

The more I look around, the more people I speak to, I am gaining a real appreciation for just how diverse my life has been.

At times it has been quite a wild ride, but more to do with circumstances and trying to hold everything together, than anything else, and I am so thankful I came from a loving and supportive base. It has given me a lot to "pass forward", hopefully giving a hand-up and support to those less fortunate in that regard, who still have stories to tell and love to share .......

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